Amateur Radio Newsline(tm) Report 1912 - April 4, 2014   
      
   Amateur Radio Newsline report number 1912 with a release date of April 4   
   2014 to follow in 5-4-3-2-1.      
      
   The following is a QST.  Ham radio responds after an earthquake hits   
   northern Chile; The ARRL tells the FCC that its time to step up amateur radio   
   rules enforcement; a House of Representatives committee issues a white paper   
   on certain aspects of the Communications Act;  WRTC 2014 receives an assist   
   in the form of a Colvin grant; the FCC tells Congress that it needs a   
   computer system upgrade and Amateur Radio Newsline opens its Young Ham of the   
   Year Award program for 2014.  Find out the details are on Amateur Radio   
   Newsline report number 1912 coming your way right now.   
      
      
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   RESCUE RADIO:  HAM RADIO RESPONDS TO CHILI EARTHQUAKE   
      
   Amateur radio has responded after a major 8.2 magnitude earthquake of struck   
   off the coast of northern Chile on Tuesday, April 1st.  We have more in this   
   report:   
      
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   According to news reports, the quake caused at least 5 deaths and triggered   
   a Tsunami that pounded Chili's shore with 2-meter-tall waves.  Officials said   
   that most of the dead were people who were crushed by collapsing walls.  The   
   Chilean government evacuated that nation's northern coast and President   
   Michelle Bachelet declared the area a disaster zone.   
      
   The Radio Club de Chile has been activated due to earthquake. It is working   
   in collaboration with Chili's National Emergency Office of the Ministry of   
   Interior and Public Security.  According to a posting on Facebook, Chilean   
   hams have established several emergency assistance as well as health and   
   welfare nets.  As we go to air, these nets are operating on 7.055, 14.255,   
   and 21.315 MHz depending on propagation and time of day.  The net controls   
   are asking other radio amateurs to please keep these frequencies clear until   
   further notice.   
      
   For the Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Heather Embee, KB3TZD, in Berwick,   
   Pennsylvania.   
      
   --   
      
   More on this story as information becomes available.  (Various Sources)   
      
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   ENFORCEMENT:  ARRL TELLS FCC MORE VISIBLE ENFORCEMENT NEEDED   
      
   The ARRL has told the FCC that renewed and more visible enforcement is   
   needed to curtail violations of the Amateur Radio Service Part 97.  Amateur   
   Newsline's Bill Pasternak, WA6ITF, is in the newsroom with the details:   
      
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   In comments filed in response to the FCC's February 14th Report on Process   
   Reform in G N Docket 14-25, the ARRL has called for a more visible,   
   responsive Amateur Radio enforcement program.     
      
   According to the ARRL, the visibility of the Commission's enforcement   
   program for the Amateur Service is wholly inadequate, resulting in a   
   widespread, albeit inaccurate, public perception that there is no active   
   enforcement in our service. The ARRL said that deterrence based on visibility   
   is a critical component of a successful compliance campaign.   
      
   The ARRL asserted that most successful and visible period of Amateur Radio   
   enforcement in recent years was between 1997 and 2008.  Compliance during   
   that period, the League said, was a result of the visibility in the Amateur   
   Radio community of a single member of the Commission's Enforcement Bureau   
   staff at Amateur Radio events and of keeping the Amateur Radio media fully   
   informed on what was being done to resolve a particular enforcement issue.   
      
   The League went on to note that FCC imposed constraints in more recent years   
   have had a devastating effect on the entire philosophy of the program and its   
   success.  Among other factors, the ARRL pointed to the "extensive approvals"   
   required before the release of enforcement correspondence.  Enforcement   
   actions that are taken, the League continued, are not released to the Amateur   
   Radio media.  This deprives radio amateurs of the knowledge that the   
   Commission is indeed investigating and responding to a given enforcement   
   problem.  The result is the perception that nothing is being done in a given   
   case, and frustration builds rapidly among the radio amateurs who have to   
   endure the rule violator on an ongoing basis.   
      
   The ARRL stressed that the limitations imposed on the visibility of   
   enforcement actions in recent years have significantly reduced the   
   effectiveness of the program and directly resulted in notable and   
   unacceptable increases in rule violations, most especially malicious   
   interference.     
      
   The ARRL says that it believes that Enforcement Bureau personnel responsible   
   for Amateur Radio enforcement should be empowered with greater autonomy in   
   addressing problems as they arise.  The League also said it was concerned   
   that FCC policies for adjudicating certain complaints of interference to   
   radio amateurs, especially those involving electric utilities, provide no   
   incentive for the utilities to resolve them.     
      
   For the Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Bill Pasternak, WA6ITF, in the newsroom   
   in Los Angeles.   
      
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   In its closing comments, the ARRL said that it was not being critical of any   
   individual FCC staffers or managers.  Rather, the League's remarks are   
   directed at the Commission's policies and processes and address issues that   
   result, in large part, from the unenviable necessity of allocating scarce and   
   in some cases inadequate human resources available to the regulatory agency.    
   There's lots more to this story and you can find it on the web at   
   tinyurl.com/arrl-on-enforcement   (ARRL)   
      
   **   
      
   RADIO LAW:  HOUSE COMMITTEE ISSUES WHITE PAPER ON COMMUNICATIONS ACT   
      
   Should the FCC be able to classify the funds it can get for a license as a   
   public interest benefit?  That is one of the questions raised in the latest   
   white paper from the House Energy and  Commerce Committee released on   
   Tuesday, April 1st.     
      
   The white paper points out that in order to issue spectrum licenses, the   
   Communications Act requires the FCC to make an affirmative finding that   
   granting the license serves the public interest, convenience, and necessity.    
   Moreover, the Communications Act prohibits the FCC from basing its finding on   
   the expectation of auction revenues.  As such one of the key questions is   
   whether or not the Communications Act should be changed to permit the FCC to   
   use expected auction revenue as the basis for a public interest finding.     
      
   Other questions the paper asks include what structural changes might be   
   necessary, the appropriate role of unlicensed spectrum, how to give the   
   government added incentive to be more efficient spectrum users, and whether   
   all FCC licenses should show more flexibility in regard to broadcasters.     
      
   This is the second in a series of communications white papers that are a   
   part of its effort by the House Energy and Commerce Committee to gather input   
   on an overall revamp of communications laws.  The committee says that it   
   wants responses by April 25th as a part of planning for a year long look at   
   communications policy.  This with an eye toward tackling a Communications Act   
   rewrite next year.  (B&C)   
      
   **   
      
   PROPAGATION:  X-1 SOLAR FLARE BRIEFLY INTERRUPTS CQ WW SSB CONTEST   
      
   Our home star the sun unleashed a major solar flare on Saturday, March 29th   
   causing a radio blackout for several minutes on Earth in the midst of the CQ   
   World Wide SSB Contest.  One operator here in the Los Angeles area was heard   
   to comment that it was almost as if 20 meters folded up and went away on a   
   vacation.     
      
   The brief X1-class flare erupted from the now decaying sunspot A R 2017 at   
   17:48 GMT according to a report from the Space Weather Prediction Center.    
   The Center noted that even though this sunspot is dissipating that it still   
   holds the potential to produce more solar flares before it's gone.     
      
   The radio blackout here on Earth lasted less than an hour before propagation   
   began to normalize.   (Space Weather Prediction Center, NASA)   
      
   **   
      
   WORLDBEAT:  MORE DETAILS ON GAREC 14 ANNOUNCED   
      
   Further details of the upcoming Global Amateur Radio Emergency   
   Communications or GAREC Conference in August have been announced.  Amateur   
   Radio Newsline's Stephan Kinford, N8WB, reports:   
      
   --   
      
   GAREC-14 will be held in Huntsville, Alabama on August 14th and 15th which   
   precedes the Huntsville Hamfest by two days.  The focus for the 2014   
   gathering will be on the application of advanced technologies available in   
   emergency communications.    
      
   According to Jim Linton, VK3PC, the actual agenda to be finalized shortly   
   will include reports by IARU regions.  Also information will be presented by   
   those involve in recent emergency communications work and the technology that   
   can be used to assist responders in crisis situations.     
      
   This is the second time Huntsville has hosted a Global Amateur Radio   
   Emergency Communications Conference.  The last instance was back in 2007.   
      
   For the Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Stephen Kinford, N8WB, reporting   
      
   --   
      
   More information can be found on the GAREC 14 website at   
   w4ozk.com/GAREC14.htm   
   (VK3PC)   
      
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   BREAK 1   
      
   Time for you to identify your station.  We are the Amateur Radio Newsline,   
   heard on bulletin stations around the world including the WR6ABD on Mt. Loma   
   Prieta  and serving San Jose, California.   
      
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   HAM RADIO IN SPACE:  LITHUANIA PRESIDENT'S GREETINGS MESSAGE SENT FROM SPACE   
      
   A greetings message from the President of the Republic of Lithuania Dalia   
   Grybauskaitė has been sent from the amateur radio satellite LituanicaSAT-1.    
   Her words "Greetings to all Lithuanians around the world" were recorded on a   
   memory chip in the satellite and the message was successfully transmitted   
   back from space on March 22, 2014 at 4:17 UTC.     
      
   LituanicaSAT-1 was launched to the International Space Station on January   
   9th and was deployed with other amateur radio satellites on February 28th.    
   President Grybauskaitė is believed to be the first President of any nation   
   to have a greetings message sent back from space since President Eisenhower   
   did so back in 1958.   (Press Release)   
      
   **   
      
   RASDIOSPORTS:  WORLD RADIOSPORT TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP RECEIVES COLVIN GRANT   
      
   WRTC 2014, Inc., the host of the 2014 World Radiosport Team Championship   
   competition has received a significant financial contribution in the form of   
   a Colvin Award Grant.   
      
   The Colvin Award is managed by ARRL and funded by an endowment established   
   by the late Lloyd D. Colvin, W6KG. The award is conferred in the form of   
   grants in support of Amateur Radio projects that promote international   
   goodwill in the field of DX.   
      
   Doug Grant, K1DG, is the Chairman of WRTC 2014.  He says that the   
   organization is honored to receive this prestigious award.  Grant added that   
   more than just a radio competition, the World Radiosport Team Championship is   
   a place where competitors from around the world can create or renew lasting   
   friendships.   
      
   Fifty-nine teams of top amateur radio contest operators from more than 40   
   countries will travel to the New England area July 10 to the 14 to compete in   
   WRTC2014.  (OPDX)   
      
   **   
      
   RESCUE RADIO:  FCC MIGHT REQUIRE SPANISH VERSION OF BROADCAST WEATHER ALERTS   
      
   The FCC is again considering whether to require that broadcasts of emergency   
   announcements be provided in multiple languages, primarily Spanish.  This in   
   addition to the current English only alerting system.  Amateur Radio   
   Newsline's Norm Seeley, KI7UP, gives us the background:   
      
   --   
      
   On Thursday, March 25th the Federal Communications Commission said it is   
   reconsidering a rule that would provide Spanish broadcasts of emergency   
   alerts and other important announcements.  Such a rule was originally   
   recommended in the wake of Hurricane Katrina in 2005.  Back then, groups   
   including the Minority Media and Telecommunications Council petitioned the   
   FCC to require broadcasters to notify Spanish listeners in the event of an   
   emergency.   
      
   In deciding to re-open the procedure for additional public comment, the   
   regulatory agency said that such a rule would require certain stations to air   
   all presidential messages in both English and Spanish.   To a lesser extent,   
   emergency broadcasts in certain areas may also be aired in other languages,   
   such as French or Mandarin.    
      
   The Minority Media and Telecommunications Council filed its petition on   
   September 22, 2005, in response to its perceived deficiencies in distributing   
   multilingual emergency information in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.     
   Spanish is the primary language for more than 38 million people living in   
   America, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, but many Spanish speakers do   
   not understand English, so the FCC wants to ensure that they can be reached   
   by emergency broadcast.   
      
   The petition called for state and local governments to designate a local   
   primary Spanish channel for emergencies.  It also called for state   
   governments to establish a local primary multilingual station in local areas   
   where a substantial proportion of the population has its primary fluency in a   
   language other than English or Spanish.  At least one broadcaster in every   
   market would be required to monitor and rebroadcast emergency information   
   aired by the local primary Spanish stations.    
      
   For the Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Norm Seeley, KI7UP, in Scottsdale,   
   Arizona.   
      
   --   
      
   Whether or not the FCC will proceed with this into a formal Rule Making   
   procedure is not known at this time.  (The Hill)   
      
   **   
      
   RESCUE RADIO:  HAMS RESPOND TO WASHINGTON STATE LANDSLIDE   
      
   Amateur Radio volunteers were called out in Snohomish County, Washington, to   
   assist in operating the Emergency Operations Center and to support   
   communication with American Red Cross shelters set up in the wake of the   
   tragic landslide on March 22nd near the town of Oso.  The slide swept a   
   massive avalanche of trees, wet soil, rocks, and debris across the rural   
   Northwest Washington community along State Route 530.     
      
   The County's Auxiliary Communications Service Radio Officer Scott Honaker,   
   N7SS.  He told the ARRL that his organization has been active but at a fairly   
   low level.  Honaker said the slide damaged some of the communication   
   infrastructure, with fire and law enforcement personnel using cell phones to   
   keep in touch while Search and Rescue units along with air operations   
   utilized VHF radio.   
      
   Honaker said that the ham radio Auxiliary Communications Service volunteers   
   were coordinating their activities on the Granite Falls 146.92 MHz repeater   
   and using cell phones.  Also that the Emergency Services Coordinating Agency   
   was active staffing the Red Cross shelters, using their 442.200 UHF repeater   
   near Arlington for purposes of organization and management.      
      
   As this report is prepared at least 21 are confirmed dead with another 30   
   still missing.   (ARRL)   
      
   **   
      
   RADIO LAW:  CHAIRMAN WHEELER SAYS FCC'S AGING TECHNOLOGY LEAVES IT   
   VULNERABLE TO CYBER ATTACKS.   
      
   The Federal Communications Commission says that its Information Technology   
   equipment is so deficient that its leader has gone to Congress pleading for   
   an upgrade.  At recent hearings before the House and Senate Appropriations   
   subcommittees that handle his agency's budget, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler said   
   that the FCC needs $13.5 million to upgrade what he termed as its antiquated   
   technology.   
      
   According to Wheeler, the agency has more than 200 different computer   
   systems and 40 percent of its technology is at least 10 years old.   He says   
   that money not spent on upgrades next year will be spent within two years on   
   what he terms as expensive maintenance.    
      
   But more importantly Wheeler told the committee that vulnerability to cyber   
   attacks is a top concern.  He noted that many of the FCC's computers still   
   use Windows XP which is the 13-year-old operating system that Microsoft is   
   ending support for on April 8th.   
      
   Improving the agency's efficiency and accountability is a high priority for   
   Congress and the new chairman.  Without new Information Technology in place   
   it difficult to achieve those goals.   
      
   (nationaljournal.com, other published news reports)   
      
   **   
      
   NAMES IN THE NEWS:  CLEAR CHANNEL COMMUNICATIOS INTRODUCE RADIO ENGINEERING   
   MENTORING PROGRAM   
      
   Some names in the news.  First up is Clear Channel Media and Entertainment   
   which has announced its intention to mentor a new generation of radio station   
   engineers.    
      
   Jeff Littlejohn is Clear Channel Executive Vice President of Engineering and   
   Systems Integration.  He says the company is making a strategic investment in   
   the future of broadcast engineering.  Littlejohn says that the company hopes   
   to attract and expose new talent to the ever-changing world of radio while   
   also fostering the growth and development of our existing employees.     
      
   Clear Channel says the new mentoring program was created in response to a   
   decline in the number of engineers choosing to go into radio broadcasting,   
   coupled with a spike in those retiring or close to leaving the industry.    
   This new program is in addition to an electrical engineering co-op program   
   the company created three years ago.  Currently the broadcaster has more than   
   400 engineers.  (RW)   
      
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   NAMES IN THE NEWS: KATIE ALLEN, WY7KRA, NAMED CQ SALES & MARKETING MANAGER   
      
   Katie Allen, WY7KRA, has been appointed Sales and Marketing Manager for CQ   
   Communications, Inc., effective immediately.     
      
   An active DXer and contester who recently earned her Extra Class license,   
   Katie Allen entered the world of amateur radio as the ARRL's Membership   
   Manager in the early 2000s, earning her first ham license under the guidance   
   of other League staff members.  She then sparked an effort to revitalize the   
   ARRL staff radio club and station, W1HQ, both of which had fallen into   
   inactivity.  She also helped move ham radio into the world of multimedia by   
   producing and posting various operating videos on You Tube.    
      
   Katie Allen lives in Sundance, Wyoming with her husband, Dwayne, WY7FD.  In   
   her new job she will be responsible for advertising sales for CQ Amateur   
   Radio magazine including the CQ Plus digital supplement as well as marketing   
   efforts for all CQ Communications products.  (CQ)   
      
   **   
      
   HAM HAPPENINGS: NAB HAM RADIO RECEPTION APRIL 9 IN LAS VEGAS   
      
   If you are a ham who will be attending the National Association Broadcasters   
   gathering in Las Vegas, you are invited to attend the free annual Ham Radio   
   Reception on Wednesday evening April 9th.  This years gathering will be   
   co-hosted by Heil Sound, Broadcast Supply Worldwide and DX Engineering.  The   
   location will be Ballroom B in the original Las Vegas Hilton Hotel at 6 P.M.   
   Pacific Daylight Savings Time.  Bob Heil, K9EID, says that he hopes to see   
   many of you there.     
   (Heil Sound)   
      
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   BREAK 2   
      
   This is ham radio news for today's radio amateur.  We are the Amateur Radio   
   Newsline with links to the world from our only official website at   
   www.arnewsline.org http://www.arnewsline.org/ and being relayed by the   
   volunteer services of the following radio amateur:   
      
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   CHANGING OF THE GUARD:  AMSAT VP-ENGINEERING ANHONY MONTIERO AA2TX - S.K.   
      
   Some sad news to report.  This with word that AMSAT Vice President of   
   Engineering Anthony J. Monteiro, AA2TX, died from cancer on Wednesday   
   morning, March 26th at age 55.     
      
   Monteiro was first licensed in 1973 as a Novice and subsequently went on to   
   achieve his Extra Class Amateur Radio License.  His interest in amateur radio   
   and electronics led him to earn a Bachelor of Science in Electrical   
   Engineering from Drexel University and a Masters in Computer Science from   
   Stanford University.     
      
   Monteiro joined AMSAT in 1994.  Among his many technical contributions to   
   the amateur satellite community was the Instant Tune Automatic Radio Tuning   
   software, A Simple Desense Filter for Echo and several other extremely low   
   cost projects.   
      
   Monteiro also played a significant role in space-based hardware development.   
   As AMSAT's Vice President of Engineering, he served as the software designer   
   for the Software Defined Transponder on ARISSat-1 that was deployed from the   
   International Space Station by in August 2011.  He also led the Fox-1   
   Engineering Team from its inception in 2009 and pioneered AMSAT's efforts to   
   apply for acceptance of Fox-1 in the NASA Education Launch of NanoSats in   
   2011 and Fox-1B in 2012.  He also established relationships with several   
   universities to secure scientific payloads for Fox-1 and Fox-1B, including   
   student experiments.    
      
   Anthony Monteiro, AA2TX, is survived by his wife, Mary Lou and daughter,   
   Veronica, who is a college freshman.  In lieu of flowers, the family asks   
   that donations be made to Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation, 850 Sligo   
   Avenue, Suite 600, Silver Spring, MD. 20910.   (AMSAT)   
      
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   SWL CORNER:  VOICE OF RUSSIA BIDS FAREWELL TO SHORTWAVE   
      
   The shortwave broadcast bands are a bit thinner after the Voice of Russia   
   bid farewell to the airwaves at midnight on April 1st local Moscow time.     
      
   Earlier reports published in 2013 claimed that Voice of Russia, formerly   
   known as Radio Moscow, was to cease its shortwave service as of January 1st   
   of this year due to budget cuts mandated by Russian President Vladimir Putin.   
   Last December 9th Putin signed a decree stating that the Voice of Russia as   
   an independent agency officially ceased to exist and was to be merged with   
   several other news agencies as part of the state run Rossia Segodnya   
   international news service   
      
   As of this past February 3rd, the Voice of Russia had cut its shortwave   
   broadcast schedule back to only 18 hours a day in English, Chinese, Japanese,   
   and Vietnamese.  It had also shaved its digital shortwave schedule to 22   
   hours a day in English, Spanish, German, French, Hindi, Urdu, and Russian.   
      
   Margarita Simonyan is the editor-in-chief of both the English language   
   television news network R-T and Rossiya Segodnya.  She has been quoted as   
   saying that Voice of Russia will end its shortwave broadcasting effective the   
   first day of April.  She added that one reason for the secession from   
   shortwave was that it was an obsolete broadcasting model where the signal is   
   transmitted without any control and that it is impossible to calculate who   
   listens to it and where.     
   ( SWLing.com, BBC, other published news sources)   
      
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   WORLDBEAT:  MOTORTBO DMR REPLACES D-STAR REPEATER IN SCOTLAND   
      
   A MotoTRBO digital voice repeater has taken the place of a D-STAR system   
   that was under-utilized in Scotland.  On March 4th the GB7DD D-STAR repeater   
   in Dundee was shut down due to lack of use.  It was replaced by a Motorola   
   MotoTRBO DMR digital voice repeater, provided by Martin Higgens, MM0DUN.    
   According to the Radio Society of Great Britain, the GB7DD is the first DMR   
   repeater on the air in Scotland and is a UHF system on 439.6625MHz with a -9   
   MHz split.  (RSGB)   
      
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   WORLDBEAT:  SNAKES AND LADDERS - A MORSE RADIO GAME   
      
   The European CW Association has introduced a new on-the-air Morse based game   
   called Snakes and Ladders.  The game is designed to promote increased   
   activity on all amateur bands by encouraging friendly contacts.  As such it   
   is not a contest but rather a way of making the hobby more fun.   Full rules   
   are available in English from the Snakes and Ladders web page at www.eucw.org   
   http://www.eucw.org/  (EUCW)   
      
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   RADIO FROM SPACE:  NASA RELEASES LRO LUNER POLAR REGION MOSAIC   
      
   Scientists have created the largest high resolution mosaic of the moon's   
   North Polar region amassed to date.  According to NASA the photo comprised of   
   10,581 pictures that have been radioed back to Earth as part of the Lunar   
   Reconnaissance Orbiter project.      
      
   NASA says that a complete printout at 300 dots per inch would require a   
   square sheet of paper wider than a professional U.S. football field and   
   almost as long.  It also notes that if the complete mosaic were processed as   
   a single file, it would require approximately 3.3 terabytes of storage space.   
      
      
   Instead, the compilation was divided into millions of small, compressed   
   files, making it manageable for users to look at and navigate using a web   
   browser.  The interactive display also allows viewers to zoom in and out and   
   pan around an area.     
      
   The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter entered the moons orbit in June 2009.    
   (NASA)   
      
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   ON THE AIR:  AUSTRIA NEW SPECIAL CALLSIGNS   
      
   The Vienna International Amateur Radio Club has announced that it will   
   operate stations under the newly released callsigns of C7A and 4Y1A as a host   
   organization.  The club already operates a United Nations amateur radio   
   station with the callsign 4U1VIC at Vienna International Centre.  The new C7A   
   and 4Y1A callsigns will be activated on special occasions related to the   
   organizations or as commemorative operations.     
      
   For recognition purposes, the callsign block of C7A to C7Z has been   
   allocated to the World Meteorological Organization while 4YA to 4YZ is   
   assigned to the International Civil Aviation Organization.  However both of   
   these callsign blocks will only count as  Austria for DXCC purposes.  (OPDX)   
      
   **   
      
   In DX,  GM4YXI and GM3WOJ will be operational as A35X and A35V,   
   respectively, from Tongatapu Island , Tonga through April 18th.  Activity   
   will be on 160 to 10 meters using CW and SSB, with some RTTY. QSL both A35V   
   and A35X via N3SL.   
      
   Bill Moore, NC1L, who is the ARRL Awards Branch Manager says that the   
   recently completed  3C0BYP operation from Annobon has been approved for DXCC   
   credit.  That DXpedition ran from February 26th through March 6th.      
      
   VE3KTB has been active stroke VY0 from Ellesmere Island since March 25th.   
   The length of his stay is unknown.  But he is mainly operating on 20 meters.    
   QSL via his home callsign.   
      
   Lastly, JA1SVP and JR1GSE will be on the from Palau as T88FA and T88TH    
   respectively between May 16th to the 19th. Bands and modes were not   
   announced. QSL each operator via their home callsign.     
      
   (Above DX news from OPDX and other news sources)   
      
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   YHOTY:  NOMINATIONS SOUGHT FOR 2014 AMATEUR RADIO NEWSLINE YOUNG HAM OF THE   
   YEAR   
      
   And finally this week, the nominating season for the 2014 Amateur Radio   
   Newsline Young Ham of the Year Award is now open.   
      
   Created in 1986, this award is offered to recognize the achievements of a   
   radio amateur age 19 or younger for his or her accomplishments in service to   
   the nation, his or her community or to the advancement of the state of the   
   art through amateur radio.     
      
   Nominees must reside in any one of the United States 50 states, its   
   possessions or in any of the 10 Canadian provinces.  Complete details, rules   
   and a required nominating form in Microsoft Word format are available on our   
   website at www.arnewsline.org/yhoty http://www.arnewsline.org/yhoty.     
   Nominating forms can also be obtained by sending a self addressed stamped   
   envelope to Amateur Radio Newsline Inc., Young Ham of the Year Award, 28197   
   Robin Avenue, Santa Clarita California, 91350.   
      
   Please note that all nominating forms and support documentation become the   
   property of the Amateur Radio Newsline and cannot be returned.  The cutoff   
   date for nominations to be postmarked or electronically filed is Midnight on   
   May 30, 2014.  (ARNewsline)   
      
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   NEWSCAST CLOSE   
      
   With thanks to Alan Labs, AMSAT, the ARRL, CQ Magazine, the FCC, the Ohio   
   Penn DX Bulletin, Radio Netherlands, Rain, the RSGB, the South African Radio   
   League, the Southgate News, TwiT-TV, Australia's WIA News and you our   
   listeners, that's all from the Amateur Radio Newsline.  Our e-mail address is   
   newsline (at) arnewsline (dot) org. More information is available at Amateur   
   Radio Newsline's(tm) only official website located at www.arnewsline.org   
   http://www.arnewsline.org/. You can also write to us or support us at Amateur   
   Radio Newsline, 28197 Robin Avenue, Santa Clarita California, 91350.   
      
   For now, with Bill Pasternak, WA6ITF, at the editors' desk, I'm Hal Rogers,   
   K8CMD, saying 73 and we thank you for listening.     
      
   Amateur Radio Newsline(tm) is Copyright 2014.  All rights reserved.   
      
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